yay 12.0.0 regression: "invalid option: '--clean' and '--refresh' may not be used together"

[ChristophSchmidpeter]

Affected Version

v12.0.0

Describe the bug

Entering yay -c or yay --clean causes:
error: invalid option: '--clean' and '--refresh' may not be used together

Reproduction Steps

1. yay -c or yay --clean

Expected behavior

Clean of unneeded packages.

Output

error: invalid option: '--clean' and '--refresh' may not be used together

[Jguer]

Hey @ChristophSchmidpeter this was an intended change to allow something like

yay --devel (yay -Syu --devel to work)

yay -Y --gendb and yay -Yc should be used instead.

I'll add it to the release notes

I did find a bug that the wrong --help is being displayed and the right help is only being displayed in -Y --help. I'll make a patch for this

[Sherlock-Holo]

@Jguer is thera a new version with the patch? I'm using 12.0.4 version but yay -c still can't use

[Jguer]

Hey @Sherlock-Holo , use yay -Yc instead.

yay does not default to -Y in the absence of an operation argument anymore to allow extra options to be passed to either the upgrade prompt or the yogurt selection menu

[meredrica]

This should probably be added to error message, this is extremely confusing

[Samueru-sama]

Add this to the error message, it is very confusing.

[Jguer]

Error message was removed as part of #2347 after almost a year of deprecation

[wzyou]

yay -Sc